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...Line. In Seattle last week, Boeing, with the biggest military backlog of all ($366 million), was concentrating on the B-47 medium jet bomber...
...other builders, will build as many houses as they plan depends on how long the housing shortage-and the housing boom-lasts. Last week the Department of Commerce estimated that about two-thirds of the pent-up housing demand has already been filled. However, said the department, the "remaining backlog is still large and appears sufficient to warrant construction close to the recent yearly rates for [another] three years...
...With a backlog of seven games behind them--a record of four wins and three losses- it may be that the Crimson has at last overcome its initial inexperience...
...Allow Pan American Airways and Panagra to transfer a backlog of profits earned before October's devaluation of the peso into dollars at pre-devaluation rates...
Champ Carry, the hefty (6 ft., 220 Ibs.) president of Pullman, Inc. took an agonized look at his freight-car orders one day last fall. The big postwar backlog of freight-car orders had nearly disappeared, and Pullman's three freight-car plants had all but shut down. Yet Carry knew that U.S. railroads needed freight cars; more than half of the 1,762,239 cars in the U.S. are rattling antiques more than 20 years old. There was plenty of business if Carry could find" someone with the money to finance car buying for the cash-short railroads...